Hi,
Just to fall into a nice discussion...
On Tue, 10 Mar 2009, Andrew Ferguson wrote:
Interesting idea, except that rdiff-backup doesn't make a snapshot every 10
backups, it makes a snapshot every 10 times that a file has changed.
I wasn't aware of that. Given the fact that I do have quite
The data you requested:
> to...@chesed ~
> $ ls -l /cygdrive/b/chesedrdiff/
> total 48
> drwxr-xr-x+ 3 Tommy None 0 Apr 10 2008 Users
> drwx--+ 4 Tommy None 49152 Mar 10 11:21 rdiff-backup-data
>
> to...@chesed ~
> $ ls -l /cygdrive/c/Users/Tommy/
> total 5529
> drwx--+ 5 Tommy
Thought I should also include the ls -l results for the parent directory of the
destination:
>
> to...@chesed ~
> $ ls -l /cygdrive/b/
> total 384
> drwx--+ 3 Administrators None0 Feb 19 16:11 $RECYCLE.BIN
> d---rwx---+ 2 Administrators SYSTEM 0 Mar 10 01:05 System Volume
>
On Mar 10, 2009, at 11:34 AM, tkeene wrote:
d-+ 4 Tommy None0 Mar 10 01:37 chesedrdiff
Whoa! I guess that's the issue. The Unix permissions presented by
Cygwin are 000, but there's an ACL on there (the + ). You can read the
ACL using the getfacl command.
How is
I have a number of clients backing up over slow internet links. Because
of the inherent flakiness of public internet connections, it can be
frustrating when the client dumps a large set of new data in a folder
that is being backed up. If the backup fails partway through,
rdiff-backup regresses
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Josh Nisly wrote:
> I have a number of clients backing up over slow internet links. Because of
> the inherent flakiness of public internet connections, it can be frustrating
> when the client dumps a large set of new data in a folder that is being
> backed up. If
I do pretty much the same thing as Greg, except that my connection
between the server room (work) and the remote site (my place) is via
encrypted sneakernet :)
(I move backups both ways -- my house off-sites to work, and work
off-sites to my house, so there's quite a bit of data and I don't re
